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Last week, as a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, I cast my nominating votes for best movie of the year, etc. We were allowed to vote up to five nominations in each category, with the first being the best and getting five points, the second getting four points, and so on. Here’s what I nominated, and below it, I post the final choices, and my votes below that. For each movie that is already out, I link to my reviews and/or put notes of explanation.

Bear in mind that some of these (like Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress) were votes I put in because we could nominate up to five choices. Also keep in mind that while I really liked most of these movies, I hated some of them, but thought the actors/actresses were good in them (and I note such where applicable). Also, some of these movies, like “Departures” and “The Merry Gentleman,” came out in 2008 but we were allowed to vote for them because they weren’t released for screening or showing here in Detroit until 2009. So, here are my nominations, but please keep in mind that I’ll try to have my separate, complete top ten list of movies by the end of the year.

4) Peter Jackson –The Lovely Bones (not released yet in Detroit, but my review will be up when it’s released, later this month)

5) Jason Reitman—Up in the Air (not released yet in Detroit, but my review will be up when it’s released, later this month)

BEST ACTOR

1) Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

2) Matt Damon – The Informant! (hate his far-left politics and anti-American smug arrogance, but he was good in this)

3) Jeff Bridges—Crazy Heart (disliked this movie, but Jeff Bridges was really good as a washed up country singer; not released yet in Detroit, but my review will be up when it’s released, later this month)

George Clooney – Up in the Air
Matt Damon – The Informant!
Colin Firth – The Single Man (not released yet in Detroit, but my review will be up when it’s released, later this month; think “Brokeback Mountain” on the set of “Mad Men”)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – 500 Days of Summer
Sam Rockwell – Moon

Marion Cotillard – Nine (not released yet in Detroit, but my review will be up when it’s released, later this month)
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Melanie Laurent – Inglourious Basterds
Mo’Nique – Precious

Here’s how I voted, based on these final nominations (we didn’t have to vote for five and I wanted to weight my choices, since the first choice gets five points, the second one four points, and so on):

BEST FILM

1) Inglourious Basterds

2) Up

BEST DIRECTOR

1) Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

BEST ACTOR

1) Sam Rockwell – Moon

2) Matt Damon – The Informant!

BEST ACTRESS

1) Alison Lohman – Drag Me to Hell

2) Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

2) Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones (In retrospect, I wish I’d just voted for Waltz and left Tucci off to strengthen my vote, as it’s night and day between the two.)

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this Jew bitch would pick Inglourious Basterds for every category! Hello whore, there was some blacks in the movies also you racist c**t!

H4R: Aside from the fact that I had to edit your c-word (nice language and class, dude), you need to get your racism straight. “Inglourious Basterds” has a Black guy as one of its heroes. He gives his life to murder Nazis. DS

Hater4real, your name definitely fits. You really need to slow your roll, especially calling someone a bith and a whore. Don’t you see the irony of hatin’ while accusing someone else of hate??? As a Black woman, I’m trying to figure out why you’re making someone’s movie choices a racial issue and using derogatory language while doing it??? People like what they like and that’s that.

Wow. Out here in cow country we don’t put up with boys who talk like Hater4Real.

C’mon out to Wyoming, boy. We got a lesson or two in manners waiting for you. (of course you won’t. you’re hunched over your laptop in somebody’s basement in your skiivies, cruising the internet for animal porn)

Great picks,Debbie-this HAS been a good year for movies!
I’m aboard the Alison Lohman bandwagon-she made “Drag” work; I would love to see her win tied with Melanie Laurent, who deserves to be in the ‘leading’ and not ‘supporting’ actress category.
Star trek was absolutely great-why so few nominations? Because “SCI FI” isn’t pretentious enough Cin-e-ma?
I have no interest in Jim Cameron’s “Avatar” cartoon. I want to see real actors acting. Inglorious Basterds is my top pick for acting, direction, writing…I picked up the Bluray yesterday, and it is solid.
Bring on 2010!

“Avatar” should be on every “Best Movie of the Year” list. Just like the “Lord of the Rings” movies and “Jurassic Park” should have been on every “Best Movie of the Year” list when they came out. The above movies were the most creative and imaginative even though you might disagree with their themes.

“The Stoning of Soriya M” is MUST viewing for every feminist who dares to make nice or march with Taliban/al-Qaeda/Hamas/Hezo/etc types…..no, make that every feminist (girl AND boy) who have a hate-on for Western Civilization period (as many do). Chain ’em to their seats and make ’em watch…It’s time WE did some re-educating.

Gotta give Matt Damon credit on his acting; too bad he’s such a doofus on politics/national policy. Agree with several posters on Alison Lohman in “Drag Me to Hell” – she made the movie; normally like Justin Long, but he was horribly mis-cast in this one; reminded me a lot of “Thinner,” based on the Stephen King novella, with the “evil-eye,” curse-casting Gypsies, et al.

Some good ones in 2009 (“Drag Me,” “Inglorious B’s,” and “The Stoning),” but one hopes 2010 will be better, indeed . . .

3 stars (enjoyed a lot!)
Year One, The Goods:Live Hard, Sell Hard, Dance Flick, The Last House on the Left, Killshot, Jennifer’s Body, Zombieland, A Perfect Getaway, Pandorum, The Invention of Lying, Baader Meinhoff Complex, Art and Copy, Departures, The Hangover, Pirate Radio, The Collector, Outlander, Drag Me to Hell, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, An Education

2 stars (liked okay)
Up in the Air, Nine (musical), Imagine That, The Chipmunks Squeakquel, From Mexico With Love, New York I Love You, The Watchmen, The Taking of Pelham 123, It’s Complicated, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Sherlock Holmes, A Christmas Carol, The Box, The Fourth Kind, The Men Who Stare at Goats, 2012, Broken Embraces, Couples Retreat, Me and Orson Welles, Michael Jackson’s This Is It, Whiteout, I Can Be Bad All By Myself, Bright Star, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Fame, Julie and Julia, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Aliens in the Attic, Whatever Works, The Proposal, Cheri, Terminator Salvation, Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithsonian, State of Play, My Bloody Valentine 3D, Whip It, Avatar

1 star (didn’t like that much)
Did You Hear About the Morgans?, Boondock Saints II, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, The Blind Side, Old Dogs, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Land of the Lost, Amelia, Public Enemies, Fast and Furious, Race to Witch Mountain, X Men
Origins: Wolverine, Armored, Play the Game: Legend of Chun Li, the Mutant Chronicles, Bruno

A search doesn’t turn up a review of “Lovely Bones.” Me and my sister were wondering if the movie had the same storyline as the book that we HATED. Question for you, Debbie:

In the book, the dead girl would rather experience sex, a la “Ghost” through inhabiting a friends body, than have or help her murderer get caught redhanded with her dead body, and therefore, stop him from being able to kill again. Did the movie go there?